Live Webinar March 25th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Diversity CoP (REP #S018)

Most people consider project teams that contain members with different cultural and skill-set backgrounds to be a challenging undertaking, but we will show you how to apply the Power of Difference to one’s advantage.

As is often the case on the ‘road less travelled’, there are some hurdles that need to be overcome.

In this presentation, we will list those obstacles and what tasks need to be ventured by both the group as well as each individual within the team to make the Power of Difference work for you.

Discussion Topics:

• Appreciation of where differences in teams are to be found, and how they are being overcome.
• Present a model concentrating on the ‚Power of Difference’.
• What hurdles do we have with such an approach?
• What the group needs to do.
• What you need to do.

Presenter: Michael Boyle (LinkedIn profile) Michael’s professional dealings have been throughout Europe with numerous global projects throughout the years. Currently, Michael is the Managing Director of Procurro Solutions, specializing on all elements tied to Project Management, Business Analysis and Product Management.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

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Live Webinar – March 26th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

At its core, big data centers on a few basic principles. The first and possibly the most important is, changing the mindset in its entirety of how we “do” marketing.

Ultimately, this helps us propel value and improve the customer experience by relying on the facts that the data presents, versus a subjective or knee-jerk reaction. It also allows us to give the customer exactly what they are looking for, in the precise moment they are looking for it.

A somewhat simplistic approach is often clouded by too much data to consume, inconclusive decisions on core business metrics and just not knowing where to start.

Learning Objectives:

• What is big data and how to use it in your marketing department
• Where to start with big data and what it will mean to you
• Understanding the goals of big data and data driven marketing

If you have no understanding about big data or just don’t know where to start, this web seminar is for you. Get the facts about big data and learn the secrets to successfully using big data in your marketing endeavors.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Live Webinar – March 26th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Learn How to Manage Your Emotions

Almost all of us work in a business environment that is intense and unrelenting.

Resilience simply refers to one’s ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. More resilient managers are able to accept life changes and adapt to adversity without lasting difficulties, while less resilient managers have a much harder time handling stress and change.

Managing emotions is a fundamental part of resilience. This can mean managing the emotions that you experience or managing the emotions of those around you. Good emotional resilience enables you to increase productivity, improve morale, reduce absenteeism, retain your best people and improved team relations.

When you understand the role of emotions in resilience, you will have the ability to understand when they can drain resilience and when they can facilitate or enhance resilience.

So what do these emotions mean?

Emotions are not about being soft and fluffy. Rather, they are vital in helping you make hard, direct management decisions.

There is intelligence in emotions and intelligence can be brought to emotions.

This webcast explains the role of emotions in management and explores how and why managing your emotions can help make you a better leader. You’ll see real examples and get loads of practical hints that you can use straight away.

What You Will Learn:

• What resilience is and why it is so difficult to measure
• The role of emotions in managing situations that may cause anxiety and stress
• The emotions that drain and the emotions that facilitate or enhance resilience
• How to interpret and use the information that emotions provide
• What happens when you have too much emotional resilience?
• Eight ways to develop emotional resilience with useful hints and tips to help.

Join Robin Hills to discover how better understanding your emotions and those of others can improve individual well-being and organizational effectiveness.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

For More Resources on Emotional Resiliency see:

• Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past David Viscott M.D.
• The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles Karen Reivich

Presenter: Robin Hills (LinkedIn profile) is founder of Ei4Change delivering leadership interventions on resilience & emotional intelligence worldwWide. He has designed a unique coaching intervention to support the development of emotional resilience, which combines images, metaphors, NLP techniques and clean language to explore what resilience means contextually for individuals and teams at deep, personal levels.

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Live Webinar March 26th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU
Event Code: 180267 A Microsoft Event By QuantumPM
(REP #1264 )

The work breakdown structure provides a mechanism for keeping the project in scope by specifying the outcomes of the project — the deliverables — not the schedule or individual tasks. Learn how real project managers have used these proven techniques to keep their teams focused on the goals of their projects instead of getting lost in the details. Use Microsoft Project and WBS Director to make it happen.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar – Mar 25th, 2014, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the only proven, publicly available framework for applying Lean-Agile practices at enterprise scale. This webinar outlines how to start and prescribes practices at the portfolio, program, and team level.

This talk presents SAFe from the perspective of Lean-Flow.

The Scaled Agile Framework is the only proven, publicly available framework for applying Lean-Agile practices at enterprise scale.

While SAFe provides a place to start and prescribes practices at the portfolio, program and team (project) level, it is not intended to be followed blindly.

Instead, it provides a framework for aligning efforts throughout an organization while creating an opportunity for learning across the organization on how to deliver value quickly and sustainably.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Live Webinar – March 25th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

The vast majority of organizations are using archaic methods to develop requirements based on methods from the 1970s and early 1980s.

With the dynamic pace of business change, organizations that continue to use these practices have continued to see a significant amount of challenged and failed projects and have placed their organizations at a competitive disadvantage.

In fact, even with the recent emphasis on project management practices and certification, Standish Group research shows that there are more failed and challenged projects than there was in their original 1994 report when waterfall and traditional requirement practices are used.

Many studies have shown that poor requirements and changing requirements are two of the leading causes of project failures.

The birth of Agile development largely stemmed from frustration of ineffective requirements practices and the desire to find a better way out of this horrible dilemma.

Agile has made a big difference on project success rates; Standish Group research shows that Agile projects are three times more likely to be successful than waterfall projects. However, having such little documentation has created problems for some organizations that have adopted agile.

In this webinar, John Parker will discuss how methods used to define and manage requirements need to change whether Agile or waterfall development is used.

John will address the following topics:

• The Difference between Business, Stakeholder and Solution Requirements
• Requirements: One time or Incremental delivery
• Requirements Review and Validation: One Time or Continuous
• Requirements Documentation: Paper Documents or Electronic
• Elicitation: Interviews or Stakeholder Collaboration
• What is Requirements and What is Design
• How Better Discovery Practices can Improve Agile

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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